re: #385 Guanxi88

What is unnoticed about is that these leading lights of the West were fundamentally blind to facts which would have been immediately obvious to any moderately educated person but a few centuries earlier.

Well, that’s an untestable premise, but it certainly is an argument that I’ve heard made quite often. So I’m still not sure where you get the idea that this is an ‘unnoticed’ idea. It’s something even contemporaries during that time period, like Orwell, covered at length.

What is the difference you find between a physicist and a philosopher?

Have you read Feynman at all?